47

It's a magic number, 47. Hammerin' Hank, Michael Idemoto, and the famous ronin. Wait, is that redundant? Anyway, we're still plowing away at the 47th issue of Giant Robot. Just a few holes to fill and a lot of cleaning up. Then we ship files to our printer in Canada.

As usual, the last-minute articles are turning out to be some of the best. One reader came in last night, read a one-page piece that we assembled the night before, and said, "This is funny, this is inspiring, this is everything that I love about Giant Robot."

Will you be able to tell the difference between the articles took weeks of planning and fine-tuning and the ones that we made on the fly? I do think there's an energy that comes with freestyling. Sometimes when you have too much time things get structured. I'd like to think the mag is pretty seamless in the end, though.

Being spontaneous and able to change things up at the last minute is a benefit of having a small crew that works nonstop without too much structure. Working late nights all week and doing a ton of revisions goes with that, too.

Okay, time to stop thinking about the process and get back to doing it... One more late night, and then we cruise.